MONTREAL - It's not difficult to appreciate how bad it is for the Formula One box office if fans leave a race believing one driver has won, only to find that another did because the first was penalised.
F1 escaped such a thing a fortnight ago when Max Verstappen was unable to overtake leader Lewis Hamilton in Monaco, and thus pull away to overcome a five-second penalty for an unsafe release during a pit stop. His failure to get past alleviated a situation in which, had he opened a gap of 4.5 seconds, he would have "won" on the road but been dropped to second, half a second in arrears.
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